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StubHub was founded in 2000 by a couple of Stanford business school students who believed the business of ticket resale was "ripe for change," as one of them put it later. Ticket scalping was banned in some states and had a poor reputation just about everywhere. Just the word "scalping" was bad enough. Co-founders Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr thought an online marketplace where prices were transparent, ticket holders themselves sold their tickets and nobody called it scalping would be perceived differently. They were right, and remarkably few obstacles were thrown in StubHub's way as it — along with eBay, its main competitor in the early days — transformed...

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Michael Jordan goes to the basket in the third quarter as Utah Jazz's Howard Eisley looks on during Game 2 of the NBA Finals in Salt Lake City, in this June 5, 1998 photo. Dominance, determination and unmatched skill earned Jordan the selection as the top basketball player of the century by a...

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StubHub was founded in 2000 by a couple of Stanford business school students who believed the business of ticket resale was "ripe for change," as one of them put it later. Ticket scalping was banned in some states and had a poor reputation...

By now, you have surely heard about Indiana's so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act law and its potential for giving cover to those who discriminate against gay people. A backlash that had already been gathering momentum burst open this...

Just after 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 19, roughly 27 hours before they were scheduled to play in a Class 4A boys basketball state semifinal against Bolingbrook, the Stevenson Patriots took the court at Carver Arena for the first time.
Save for a...

Diamond Stone knew it would happen.
When the 6-foot-10 McDonald's All-American from Milwaukee chose Maryland over Wisconsin last Friday, he was forced to make a drastic move for a modern teen.
"I had to turn my Twitter notifications off,"...

This story was born from a conversation at the United Center.
While waiting to broadcast Michigan State's Big Ten tournament semifinal game, Rick Mahorn watched Wisconsin take down Purdue. Asked which Badger had the most pro potential, the man with the...

Michigan State can’t match Wisconsin in terms of NBA prospects, but there is at least one.
CBS Sports analyst Doug Gottlieb believes that Denzel Valentine can make it in the league. The 6-5 junior stuffed the stat sheet in the Spartans’ Elite Eight...

From Derrick Rose to Jabari Parker to an entire program full of potential Division I players at Simeon, Robert Smith knows a thing or two about the recruiting process.
Smith will coach the West squad in Wednesday night's boys McDonald's All-American Game...

Haley Greer
New Trier, G, Jr.
2014-15 stats: 10.8 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 4.6 apg
College: Undecided
After transferring to New Trier from Deerfield for her junior year, the point guard had no trouble fitting in with her new team and helped the Trevians (31-2)...

Jalen Brunson
Stevenson, G, Sr.
2014-15 stats: 23.3 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 5.3 apg
College: Villanova
The 6-foot-2 Brunson will go down as one of the top high school players in state history after leading the Patriots to their first Class 4A state title this...

Frank Kaminsky and Jahlil Okafor are as different as stories can be in college basketball. The two, however, have a lot in common — both are in the Final Four and both were the top selections on The Associated Press' 2014-15 All-America team.
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Saturday's victory over the hapless Knicks accomplished two things for the Bulls:
• It made Tom Thibodeau the 11th coach to post at least a .549 winning percentage in his first five full NBA seasons.
• And it quietly continued the Bulls' recent...

Reclining in front of his locker stall at the Air Canada Centre late Wednesday with a smile on his face, Joakim Noah put it best.
"Two games in a week is unheard of," Noah said. "I'm hoping I can use that time to get some lifts in and...

The Chicago Bulls, who clinched a berth in the 2015 NBA postseason Monday, will begin selling playoff tickets at 11 a.m. Friday, the team announced.
Tickets for eight games (four each in rounds one and two of the postseason) will be available for...

PHOENIX — Hot Rod Hundley, the former NBA player who broadcast Jazz games in New Orleans and Utah for 35 years, died Friday. He was 80.
The Jazz said Hundley died at his home in the Phoenix area.
Hundley broadcast 3,051 Jazz games from 1974-2009. He...

Bryce Drew and Bobby Hurley each want the DePaul men's basketball job "badly," according to a source.
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The two are considered the...

It is the Thursday after Jalen Brunson led Stevenson to its first state championship, and Brunson is back in the gym.
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About 200 Chicago schoolteachers, wearing the red T-shirts their union has embraced as a symbol of solidarity against Mayor Rahm Emanuel, gathered in a Pilsen union hall recently for a workshop that doubled as a political rally.
"The whole country...

OKLAHOMA CITY — NBA MVP Kevin Durant will miss the rest of the season and have bone graft surgery next week to treat a fractured bone in his right foot.
The Oklahoma City Thunder had said last week he likely would be shut down for the season. The team...

CLEVELAND — On Thursday night at Quicken Loans Arena, Notre Dame, West Virginia, Wichita State and Kentucky will play their biggest games of the season in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.
But if you were to check on the players a few hours before...

Recordings that cost Donald Sterling ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers could cost the woman he was dating the fortune in gifts he lavished on her.
Snippets of the conversations recorded by V. Stiviano were played Wednesday as a lawyer for...